Encyclopedia - Emerald Tablet: Encyclopedia - Emerald Tablet
The Emerald Tablet, also known as Smaragdine Table, Tabula Smaragdina, or The Secret of Hermes, is an ancient text purporting to reveal t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emerald Tablet: Encyclopedia Ii - Emerald Tablet - Influence
In its several Western recensions, the Tablet became a mainstay of medieval and Renaissance alchemy. Commentaries and/or translations wer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emerald Tablet: Encyclopedia Ii - Emerald Tablet - Textual History
The oldest documentable source for the text is the Kitab Sirr al-Asrar, a pseudo-Aristotelian compendium of advice for rulers authored by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emerald Tablet: Encyclopedia Ii - Emerald Tablet - The Tablet Itself
One translation, by Isaac Newton, found among his alchemical papers, runs as follows: 1. Tis true without lying, certain & most true...   » Read the article

Article - Alchemy: The Emerald Tablet And The Emerald Formula
The Emerald Tablet is an ancient artifact that reveals a profound spiritual technology, which has survived to this day despite centuries ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermes Trismegistus: Encyclopedia - Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus (Greek for "Hermes the thrice-greatest", Greek: Ερμης ο Τρισμεγιστος) or Mercurius ter Maximus in L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macrocosm And Microcosm: Encyclopedia - Macrocosm And Microcosm
Macrocosm and microcosm is an ancient Greek schema of seeing the same patterns reproduced in all levels of reality. It may have begun wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermetic: Encyclopedia - Hermetic
A container or barrier that is hermetic is sealed so that not even air can enter or leave. For example a tin (or can). Hermetic - Etymol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macrocosm And Microcosm: Encyclopedia Ii - Macrocosm And Microcosm - Ancient Thought
Macrocosm/microcosm is a principle in Socratic/Platonic philosophy. The Republic, most of it of Socratic influence, is based on this fund...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Macrocosm And Microcosm: Encyclopedia Ii - Macrocosm And Microcosm - Medieval And Modern Thought
The English physician and alchemist Robert Fludd (1574-1637) expicitly based his work Utriusque Cosmi Historia (The history of the two wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermes Trismegistus: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermes Trismegistus - Origin
Both Thoth and Hermes were gods of writing and of magic in their respective cultures. Thus the Greek god of interpretive communication wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermes Trismegistus: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermes Trismegistus - Hermetic Revival
During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus known as the Hermetica enjoyed great credit an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermes Trismegistus: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermes Trismegistus - New Age Revival
Modern occultists continue to suggest that some of these texts may be of Pharaonic origin, and that "the forty two essential texts" that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermes Trismegistus: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermes Trismegistus - Fictional References
In White Wolf's World of Darkness, Hermes Trismegistus is held to be the founder of the faction of mages known as the Order of Hermes. Tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geber: Encyclopedia Ii - Geber - Writings By Jabir
The writings of Jabir Ibn Hayyan can be divided into four categories: 1. The 112 Books dedicated to the Barmakids, viziers of Caliph Haru...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Emerald Tablet: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Emerald Tablet
Emerald Tablet. See SMARAGDINE TABLET   (See also: Emerald Tablet , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dict...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Smaragdine Tablet, Emerald Tablet: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Smaragdine Tablet, Emerald Tablet
Smaragdine Tablet The emerald tablet, alleged mystically to be of the Egyptian Hermes or Thoth, on which was inscribed, according to t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - As Above So Below: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On As Above So Below
As Above So Below. See EMERALD TABLET   (See also: As Above So Below , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism D...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Smaragdine Tablet Of Hermes: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Smaragdine Tablet Of Hermes
Smaragdine Tablet of Hermes. As expressed by Eliphas Lévi,"this Tablet of Emerald is the whole of magic in a single page&q...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Alchemy: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Alchemy
ALCHEMY Chemistry is the child of the Alchemists. It's the legacy of "the puffers," those charlatan imitators who tried to f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermetica: Encyclopedia - Hermetica
Hermetica is a category of popular Late Antique literature purporting to contain secret wisdom, and generally attributed to Hermes Trisme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geber: Encyclopedia - Geber
Jabir Ibn Hayyan (full name Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan Al-Azdi, أبو موسى جابر بن حيان الأزدي; ca.721, Tus, Iran –...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alchemy: Encyclopedia - Alchemy
Alchemy is an early protoscientific and philosophical discipline combining the elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Secretum Secretorum: Encyclopedia - Secretum Secretorum
Secretum secretorum is a medieval treatise also known as Secret of Secrets, or The Book of the Secret of Secrets, or in Arabic Kitab sirr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermetica: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermetica - Character Of The Texts
Most of the texts are presented in the form of a dialogue, a favorite form for didactic material in Antiquity. The subject-matter of Herm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyman Banner: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyman Banner - Card List
Banner's deck theme is alchemy and its relation to the universe. His main strategy relies mostly on the removal of his own cards from the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alchemy: Encyclopedia Ii - Alchemy - History
Alchemy encompasses several philosophical traditions spanning some four millennia and three continents. These traditions' general penchan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Secretum Secretorum: Encyclopedia Ii - Secretum Secretorum - Origin
The origins of the treatise are uncertain. No Greek original exists, though there are claims in the Arabic treatise that it was translate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geber: Encyclopedia Ii - Geber - Contributions To Chemistry
Jabir is often called "Father of Chemistry", because he was the first scholar to scientifically systematize that science, to whose theory...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alchemy: Encyclopedia Ii - Alchemy - Overview
Alchemy - Alchemy as a proto-science. The common perception of alchemists is that they were pseudo-scientists, crackpots and charlatans...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Secretum Secretorum: Encyclopedia Ii - Secretum Secretorum - Influences
It was one of the most widely-read texts of the High Middle Ages. Medieval readers took the ascription to Aristotle as authentic and trea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Secretum Secretorum: Encyclopedia Ii - Secretum Secretorum - The Secrets
Secrets of Secrets takes the form of a pseudoepigraphical letter supposedly from Aristotle to Alexander the Great during his campaigns in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermetica: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermetica - Contents Of The Corpus Hermeticum
The following are the titles given to thirteen of the eighteen tracts, as translated by G.R.S. Mead. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men To ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermetica: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermetica - The Corpus Hermeticum In The Renaissance
Although they were still popular enough in the 5th century to be argued against by St. Augustine in the City of God vii.23–26, Hermetic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alchemy: Encyclopedia Ii - Alchemy - Etymology
The word alchemy comes from the Arabic al-kīmiyaˀ or al-khīmiyaˀ (الكيمياء or الخيمياء), which is probably formed fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geber: Encyclopedia Ii - Geber - Contributions To Alchemy
Jabir became an alchemist at the court of Caliph Harun al-Rashid, for whom he wrote the Kitab al-Zuhra ("The Book of Venus", on "the nobl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alchemy: Encyclopedia Ii - Alchemy - Alchemy In Art And Entertainment
Alchemy - Literature. Many authors lampooned alchemists and used them as the butt of satirical attacks. Two famous examples of these in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geber: Encyclopedia Ii - Geber - Biography
Jabir Ibn Hayyan was born around 721 in the town of Tus in Khorasan, Persia (present-day Iran). His father, a druggist of the Azd tribe, ...   » Read the article

Article - Theosophy Sitemap I - E
This is a sitemap for Theosophy - E . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word.   ...   » Read the article